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A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus.
To summarize, a cherry is definitively a fruit, not a berry.
Cherries lack a core and the entire fruit is fleshy, but it has a pit in the center, so it isn’t completely edible. Therefore it does not meet the definition of berry. Cherries actually fall into a different ‘simple fleshy fruit’ category, called ‘drupe,’ which includes all fruit
2024年4月25日 · Three types of cherries are mainly grown for their fruits, which are fleshy drupes (stone fruit): sweet cherries, tart cherries, and, grown to a much smaller extent, the dukes, which are crosses of sweet and sour cherries. The sweet cherry fruit measures about 2 cm (1 inch) in diameter and varies in color from yellow through red to nearly black.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2023年4月16日 · Cherries are actually classified as a type of fruit called a drupe. Drupes consist of thin skin, a fleshy body, a hard stone, and an inner seed. They’re often referred to as “stone fruits” due to the hard stone in the middle. The part of the fruit that you eat is called the mesocarp.
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2019年6月19日 · Cherries are small stone fruits that come in a variety of colors and flavors. There are two major categories — tart and sweet cherries, or Prunus cerasus L. and Prunus avium L., respectively....
2018年11月12日 · While cherries do match the definition of a fruit, they also fall into a more specific category. Cherries are classified as drupes, which are a subcategory of the fruit genus. Drupes, sometimes referred to as stone fruits, have an outer fleshy layer and thin skin, and are widely identified for having a pit in the middle.